Hosea 1:3

So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. GOMER ... DAUGHTER OF DIBLAIM - symbolical names: literally, 'Completion, daughter of grape-cakes;' the dual expressing the double layers in which these dainties were baked. So, one completely given up to sensuality. Maurer explains "Gomer" as literally 'a burning coal.' Compare ; , as to an adulteress; ; ....

We said in yesterday’s Lecture, that God ordered his Prophet to take a wife of whoredoms, but that this was not actually done; for what other effect could it have had, but to render the Prophet contemptible to all? and thus his authority would have been reduced to nothing. But God only meant to show to the Israelites by such a representation, that they vaunted themselves without reason; for they had nothing worthy of praise, but were in every way ignominious. It is then said, Hosea _went and took _to himself _Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim _ גמר, _Gomer_, means in Hebrew, _to fail_; and sometimes it signifies actively, _to consume_; and hence _Gomer _means consumption. But _Diblaim _are masses of figs, or dry figs reduced to a mass. The Greeks call them παλαθας. The Cabalists say here that the wife of Hosea was called by this name, because they who are much given to wantonness at

1-7 Israel was prosperous, yet then Hosea boldly tells them of their sins, and foretells their destruction. Men are not to be flattered in sinful ways because they prosper in the world; nor will it last long if they go on still in their trespasses. The prophet must show Israel their sin; show it to be exceedingly hateful. Their idolatry is the sin they are here charged with. Giving that glory to any creature which is due to God alone, is an injury and affront to God; such as for a wife to take a stranger, is to her husband. The Lord, doubtless, had good reasons for giving such a command to the prophet; it would form an affecting picture of the Lord's unmerited goodness and unwearied patience, and of the perverseness and ingratitude of Israel. We should be broken and wearied with half that perverseness from others, with which we try the patience and grieve the Spirit of our God. Let us a...

Verse Hosea 1:3. _HE WENT AND TOOK GOMER_] All this appears to be a real transaction, though having a typical meaning. If he took an _Israelite_, he must necessarily have taken an _idolatress_; one who had worshipped the calves of Jeroboam at Dan or at Bethel....

SO HE WENT - He did not demur, nor excuse himself, as did even Moses Exodus 4:18, or Jeremiah Jeremiah 1:6, or Peter Acts 10:4, and were rebuked for it, although mercifully by the All-Merciful. Hosea, accustomed from childhood to obey God and every indication of the will of God, did at once, what he was bidden, however repulsive to natural feeling, and became, thereby, the more an image of the obedience of Christ Jesus, and a pattern to us, at once to believe and obey God’s commands, however little to our minds. GOMER, THE DAUGHTER OF DIBLAIM - “Gomer” is completion; “Diblaim,” a double lump of figs; which are a figure of sweetness. These names may mean, that “th

EXPOSITION HOSEA 1:1 THE WORD OF THE LORD THAT CAME UNTO HOSEA, THE SON OF BEERI. The prophets are divided into the former (_rishonim, _Zechariah 1:4) prophets and the later prophets. The writings of the former prophets comprise most of the historical hooks, for the Hebrew conception of a prophet was that of an individual inspired by God to instruct men for the present or inform them of the future, whether orally or by writing; the _later _were the prophets properly so called, while these, again, are subdivided into the _greater, _consisting of Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and the _lesser, _or minor, including the remaining twelve. The designation "minor" does not imply any inferiority in importance of subject or value of contents

SO HE WENT AND TOOK GOMER THE DAUGHTER OF DIBLAIM,.... In the course of prophesying he made mention of this person, who was a notorious common strumpet; and suggested hereby that they were just like her; or these were fictitious names he used to represent their case by Gomer signifies both "consummation" and "consumption" l; and this harlot is so called, because of her consummate beauty, and her being completely mistress of all the tricks of one; or, being consummately wicked, a perfect whore, common to all; and because her ruin and destruction, persisting in such practices, were inevitable, and so a fit emblem of the present and future condition of Israel. Diblaim may be considered either as the name of a man, a word of the same form with Ephraim; or of a woman, the mother of Gomer; or else of a place, the wilderness of Diblath, Ezekiel 6:14 and signifies "a cake of dried figs" m; which...

ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE REJECTION OF ISRAEL AS THE ADULTEROUS WIFE AND HER FUTURE RECEPTION AND RESTORATION CHAPTER 1 Israel's Sin and Promise of Restoration _ 1. The introduction (Hosea 1:1) _ 2. The prophet's marriage and birth of Jezreel (Hosea 1:2) 3. The birth of Lo-Ruhamah (Hosea 1:6) 4. The birth of Lo-ammi (Hosea 1:8) 5. The future restoration (Hosea 1:10) Hosea 1:1. This superscription gives the period of Hosea's ministry.

HOSEA'S MARRIAGE: A PARABLE OF YAHWEH'S RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL. The prophet receives a Divine command to take (_i.e._ marry) a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom. The reason given for this startling procedure is that the land (_i.e._ the land of Israel) doth commit great whoredom departing from the LORD. Hosea obeys and takes as his wife _Gomer bath Diblaim_ (? daughter of fig-cakes), who bears three children to him. These are given symbolical names: the first, a son, is called Jezreel, a prophetic name pointing to the coming of vengeance on the house of Jehu [7] for the massacre at Jezreel of Ahab's house (2 Kings 10:11); the second a daughter and the third a son, bearing the names Lo-ruhamah (uncompassionated) and Lo-ammi (not my people), in token of Yahweh's rejection of Ephraim. [7] Jeroboam II. whose son Zechariah was the last of Jeh

GOMER. completion (i.e. the filling up the measure of idolatry). DIBLAIM. a double cake of figs, symbolical of sensual pleasure....